Coupling, Cohesion and the Law of Demeter

Question

The Law of Demeter indicates that you should only speak to objects that you know about directly. That is, do not perform method chaining to talk to other objects. When you

Answer 1

In the situations where there seems to be a tradeoff between coupling and cohesion, I'd probably ask myself "if somebody else had already written this logic, and I were looking for a bug in it, where would I look first?", and write the code that way.